Torn from her loving family, seventeen year-old Sarah is locked in shackles on the Neva, a female prison ship, for deportation and the eight-month journey to the Australian penal colony. An innocent victim of the 1835 land clearances in Scotland, she faces dark squalor on the ship, and later at the womens' prison in Tasmania. Wit and willpower are her weapons for survival.
Sarah uses herbal medicine and midwifery skills,learned from hre mother, to heal the broken in body and spirit. Her gentleness and compassion wins respect, and the Neva's captain allows her shore time to get supplies at exotic markets in the Canary Islands, Rio, and Cape Town South Africa.
Danger mounts with gale force winds, mountainous seas, and shipwreck on a deserted island, but people drawn into her life provide the greatest challenge. James Griffen, a handsome buccaneer awakens passion within her, as his ship follows the Neva around the world, and a buxom madam manipulates her companions, forming a prostitution gang. Sarah's morals are challenged; she questions lust, love, greed, power, and even murder as the journey progresses.
This is an epic saga, of Sarah's passage from naive girl into a strong woman, as she takes control of her destiny in a final leap of blind faith, for trust and love, justice and freedom.
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